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...Metallurgy Professor Donald Avery, both of Brown University, report that as long as 2,000 years ago, the Haya people were producing medium-carbon steel in preheated, forced-draft furnaces. A technology this sophisticated was not developed again until nearly 19 centuries later, when German-born Metallurgist Karl Wilhelm Siemens, who is generally credited with using an open-hearth furnace, produced the first high-grade carbon steel...
...lame start with the Paris-New York show in 1977, a patchy curatorial bungle. It finds its feet with this exhibition. The theme is large: nothing less than the whole panorama of the German avant-garde in its most spiritual, subversive or idealist aspects, from the time of Kaiser Wilhelm II to that of Adolf Hitler. It embraces film, photog- raphy, architecture, industrial design and printing, as well as sculpture and painting, and it covers an extraordinary ferment of ideas and images. In short, it is the first major exhibition-as the Pompidou Center proudly and rightly claims-to trace...
...from Paris to Berlin. As the German art historian Werner Spies remarks in the catalogue to "Paris-Berlin," the visits made by Henri Matisse or Robert Delaunay to Germany were "marked by a condescending paternalism," in contrast to the tentative and supplicatory visits that German artists like August Macke, Wilhelm Lehmbruck or Max Beckmann made to France: the French went to Germany as living demonstrations, the Germans by and large to Paris as students...
Anneliese's parents had agreed to the exorcism with the local bishop's approval after doctors failed to rid her of epileptic-like convulsions. The prosecution took no issue with the rite of exorcism, which Fathers Wilhelm Renz and Ernst Alt conducted according to a Catholic ritual promulgated in 1614. But Prosecutor Karl Stenger argued that calling a doctor to examine the girl "would not have compromised the defendants' religious convictions." Churchmen seemed to agree. Munich's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger said that the 1614 ritual "must be thoroughly revised," and the German Bishops' Conference ruled...
...biorhythm craze grew from the mystic speculations of Wilhelm Fliess, a colorful Berlin doctor who was Sigmund Freud's closest friend for more than a decade. A nose and throat specialist, Fliess is best known for his belief that the nose is responsible for many neurotic and sexual ailments, which are curable by applying cocaine to what he called the "genital spots" of the nasal membrane. Fliess published books and essays of impenetrable mathematics, all revolving around his mystic numbers, 23 (representing the masculine or physical principle) and 28 (representing the feminine, emotional principle and presumably based...